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Review my startup, cloudrino.net

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Re: Review my startup, cloudrino.net

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Post by mtmail »

The initial screen doesn't make it clear you can scroll down for further information, a simple arrow might work, though on other websites I tend to miss them, too.

"Own a cloud server" might be over-promising since it's a virtual server and it's really renting. I would change the 'buy now' to 'sign up'. The buttons don't work and just point to the homepage without any indication what is going on.

Pricing doesn't make it clear if prices are per month. For storage it's unclear if it's SSD drives.

When I'm spending $100 with a company I want to see an imprint with full address and not just a contact form. Terms of service list 'Rs' as currently so I imagine the hosting is in Brazil?

The privacy policy doesn't have a section on Google Analytics (third party cookies, data being send to the US).

I see a link to your twitter (https://twitter.com/koonktech) only after registering.

Good luck! I imaging much abuse with the free account, maybe I'm too pessimistic.

Re: Review my startup, cloudrino.net

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Post by mtmail »

mtmail wrote: post #2

The initial screen doesn't make it clear you can scroll down for further information, a simple arrow might work, though on other websites I tend to miss them, too. "Own a cloud server" might be over-promising since it's a virtual server and it's really renting. I would change the 'buy now' to 'sign up'. The buttons don't work and just point to the homepage without any indication what is going on. Pricing doesn't make…

P.S. without submitting to https://news.ycombinator.com/show the posting will get too little exposure

Re: Review my startup, cloudrino.net

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Post by koonk »

mtmail wrote: post #2

The initial screen doesn't make it clear you can scroll down for further information, a simple arrow might work, though on other websites I tend to miss them, too. "Own a cloud server" might be over-promising since it's a virtual server and it's really renting. I would change the 'buy now' to 'sign up'. The buttons don't work and just point to the homepage without any indication what is going on. Pricing doesn't make…

Hello,

Thanks for the amazing review. Took some amazing points from it and would be making the changes shortly.

We have a strict abuse policy with automated systems in place, but we'd still like to keep our fingers crossed.

Our motto is to make cloud accessible to everyone.

Thanks again

Re: Review my startup, cloudrino.net

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Post by koonk »

mtmail wrote: post #3
mtmail wrote: post #2

The initial screen doesn't make it clear you can scroll down for further information, a simple arrow might work, though on other websites I tend to miss them, too. "Own a cloud server" might be over-promising since it's a virtual server and it's really renting. I would change the 'buy now' to 'sign up'. The buttons don't work and just point to the homepage without any indication what is going on. Pricing doesn't make…

P.S. without submitting to https://news.ycombinator.com/show the posting will get too little exposure

Can't :(

Re: Review my startup, cloudrino.net

#9

Post by mrmondo »

Just had a play round on the base instance - first thing I noticed is just how slow the servers are.

Defining what I mean by slow:

- The IOP/s limits make the server practically unusable for anything I tried, fio reports random 4k writes to be between 20-100 at most with very heavy fluctuation, I wouldn't consider anything under around 4K IOP/s usable for basic tasks for for databases I really want to see at least 10K.

- The vCPU feels very over provisioned and I noticed a lot of WAIT even when the VM was doing nothing.

- After starting the server for the first time it had 3438 failed login attempts - I'm wondering if it was properly erased or if you're actually being DOSed heavily already.

- Very high latency from Australia with a 300-500ms RTA.

  test: (g=0): rw=randwrite, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=64
  fio-2.2.8
  Starting 1 process
  test: Laying out IO file(s) (1 file(s) / 4096MB)
  bs: 1 (f=1): [w(1)] [5.6% done] [0KB/244KB/0KB /s] [0/61/0 iops] [eta 02m:14s]

  Last failed login: Sat Aug 15 21:35:27 EDT 2015 from xx.xx.xx.xx on ssh:notty
  There were 3438 failed login attempts since the last successful login.
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